Throughout filmmaking history screenwriters have used many methods to achieve success in Hollywood. Nora Ephron (When Harry Met Sally, 1989) easily gained access to Hollywood as the daughter of stage and screenwriting team Henry and Phoebe Ephron. Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, 1999) juggled many jobs and wrote for the T.V. series, Get a Life, before catching the attention of producer Steve Golin. Alan Ball (American Beauty 1999) chose a different path; he first wor…
Seven Ways To Connect Your Writing And Your Life
An important question for any artist is: How can I built a career and simultaneously be true to myself? Its an important question, and during the twenty years Ive taught writing, hundreds of students have expressed the belief that success and personal integrity are mutually exclusive.
The Lifewriting approach to fiction suggests that not only do these two qualities overlap, but that the safest, surest, most satisfying path to discovering your true voice, your deepest cr…
Evaluating Your Own Work
How to Analyze and Rewrite Your Writing
Horror Movie Screenplays – 10 Steps To Writing A Horror Script
A horror movie has certain rules. If you break too many the audience will be disappointed.
This is a very short, no fluff, blueprint of how to write a horror script.
Ten Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters
An at-a-glance guide to becoming a better, more productive, more successful writer!